AN ON-LINE INTELLIGENT ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER FOR MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS BASED ON AN OPEN ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

In the development of the unattended and self-adjust machining system, where the human operator must be replaced by a Computer Numerical Control, the control system should properly process information with its varying environment in an intelligent way. The intelligent CNC must be able to recognize, in real time, major problems of operation connected to the machining process like chipping problems or tool breakage. To do that, the CNC intelligent system must be able to receive, process, and analyze inputs from multiple types of external sensor attached to it. This approach can only be possible on the base of an Open Architecture. The author of this paper proposes the use of fuzzy logic to develop an intelligent adaptive controller for manufacturing operations based on an open architecture that must be able to face problems of control, monitoring and fault diagnosis in real time.